image - Swift2 recuperando imágenes de Firebase

Question

Estoy tratando de leer / mostrar una imagen de Firebase. Primero estoy codificando la imagen y luego publicando esta cadena codificada en Firebase. Esto funciona bien Cuando intento decodificar la cadena codificada de Firebase y convertirla en una imagen, obtengo una excepción de valor nulo.

Así es como guardo la imagen en Firebase

var base64String: NSString!
func imagePickerController(picker: UIImagePickerController, didFinishPickingImage image: UIImage, editingInfo: [String : AnyObject]?) {

    self.dismissViewControllerAnimated(true, completion: nil)

    imageToPost.image = image

    var uploadImage = image as! UIImage
    var imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(uploadImage)!
    self.base64String = imageData.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(NSDataBase64EncodingOptions.Encoding64CharacterLineLength)
    let ref = Firebase(url: "https://XXX.firebaseio.com")

    var quoteString = ["string": self.base64String]
    var usersRef = ref.childByAppendingPath("goalImages")
    var users = ["image": quoteString]
    usersRef.setValue(users)

    displayAlert("Image Posted", message: "Your image has been successfully posted!")
}

Así es como estoy tratando de leer la imagen de Firebase

//  ViewController.swift

import UIKit
import Firebase

class ViewController: UIViewController {
@IBOutlet weak var image: UIImageView!
var base64String: NSString!

@IBAction func buttonClicked(sender: AnyObject) {

    sender.setTitle("/(sender.tag)", forState: UIControlState.Normal)

}

override func viewDidLoad() {
    super.viewDidLoad()
    // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.

    let ref = Firebase(url: "https://XXX.firebaseio.com/goalImages/image/string")

    ref.observeEventType(.Value, withBlock: { snapshot in

        self.base64String = snapshot.value as! NSString
        let decodedData = NSData(base64EncodedString: self.base64String as String, options: NSDataBase64DecodingOptions())
        //Next line is giving the error
        var decodedImage = UIImage(data: decodedData!)

        self.image.image = decodedImage
        }, withCancelBlock: { error in
            print(error.description)
        })

}

override func didReceiveMemoryWarning() {
    super.didReceiveMemoryWarning()
    // Dispose of any resources that can be recreated.
}
}

El error dice: "error fatal: inesperadamente encontrado nulo al desenvolver un valor opcional"; decodedData es nulo. ¿Alguien podría explicar qué está yendo mal?

Answer 1

En vez de

let decodedData = NSData(base64EncodedString: self.base64String as String, 
                                     options: NSDataBase64DecodingOptions())

intente agregar IgnoreUnknownCharacters

NSDataBase64DecodingOptions.IgnoreUnknownCharacters

Ejemplo de uso: codificar un jpg, almacenar y leer desde firebase

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    if let image = NSImage(named:"Enterprise.jpeg") {
    let imageData = image.TIFFRepresentation
    let base64String = imageData!.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(.Encoding64CharacterLineLength)
    let imageRef = myRootRef.childByAppendingPath("image_path")
    imageRef.setValue(base64String)

leer y decodificar

       imageRef.observeEventType(.Value, withBlock: { snapshot in

            let base64EncodedString = snapshot.value
            let imageData = NSData(base64EncodedString: base64EncodedString as! String, 
                           options: NSDataBase64DecodingOptions.IgnoreUnknownCharacters)
            let decodedImage = NSImage(data:imageData!)
            self.myImageView.image = decodedImage

            }, withCancelBlock: { error in
                print(error.description)
        })

EDITAR 2019_05_17

Actualización a Swift 5 y Firebase 6

func writeImage() {
    if let image = NSImage(named:"Enterprise.jpg") {
        let imageData = image.tiffRepresentation
        if let base64String = imageData?.base64EncodedString() {
            let imageRef = self.ref.child("image_path")
            imageRef.setValue(base64String)
        }
    }
}

func readImage() {
    let imageRef = self.ref.child("image_path")
    imageRef.observeSingleEvent(of: .value, with: { snapshot in
        let base64EncodedString = snapshot.value as! String
        let imageData = Data(base64Encoded: base64EncodedString, options: Data.Base64DecodingOptions.ignoreUnknownCharacters)!
        let decodedImage = NSImage(data: imageData)
        self.myImageView.image = decodedImage
    })
}

Answer 2

Ingeniero de Firebase aquí:

Recomiendo usar la nueva API de Firebase Storage para subir imágenes a Firebase. Es fácil de usar, de bajo costo y está respaldado por Google Cloud Storage a gran escala.

Puede cargar desde NSData o un NSURL apunta a un archivo local (mostraré NSData , pero el principio es el mismo):

// Data in memory
let data: NSData = ...

// Create a reference to the file you want to upload
let riversRef = storageRef.child("images/rivers.jpg")

// Upload the file to the path "images/rivers.jpg"
let uploadTask = riversRef.putData(data, metadata: nil) { metadata, error in
  if (error != nil) {
    // Uh-oh, an error occurred!
  } else {
    // Metadata contains file metadata such as size, content-type, and download URL.
    let downloadURL = metadata!.downloadURL
    // This can be stored in the Firebase Realtime Database
    // It can also be used by image loading libraries like SDWebImage
  }
}

Incluso puede pausar y reanudar las cargas, y puede monitorear fácilmente las cargas para ver el progreso:

// Upload data
let uploadTask = storageRef.putData(...)

// Add a progress observer to an upload task
uploadTask.observeStatus(.Progress) { snapshot in
  // Upload reported progress
  if let progress = snapshot.progress {
    let percentComplete = 100.0 * Double(progress.completedUnitCount) / Double(progress.totalUnitCount)
  }
}